Write-on

After another year of inspired and inspiring writing, our Write-On season is drawing to a close, and the coming session will be the last before the summer break. Meetings will resume in August. For tonight’s session, Write-On members are invited to select their highlights from the past season, so that we can enjoy a short…

This week sees the last of this literary year’s Mug of the Month contests, marking the close of another wonderful year of creativity! We can expect the usual close competition of poems and texts, this time containing the key words ‘Fly’ and ‘Fan’. Good luck to all contributors! Four poems follow, including a tribute to…

Our meeting this week begins with a tribute to our dear member Celia Scully, who passed away recently. We shall miss her wise advice and gentle but precise comments, but most of all we will regret no longer being able to enjoy her own polished, touching and versatile poems. May she Rest in Peace. Poems…

This week presents a colourful mix of submissions: the genre ‘Dialogue’ (Mary Hodson) is a newcomer that we look forward to! Seamus Keogh’s poem with its Irish title has been queueing up for the third week, and will hopefully be presented this evening. And a warm welcome to a new participant, Eilis Hannon, who is…

Next month will see the launch of one of Write-On’s two publications this year: Frank Fahy’s collection of short stories ‘A Father’s Love and Other Stories’, which is due out on June 14. In anticipation of this exciting event, Frank will be reading one of the stories from his collection this Thursday. Several of our…

Time flies – and once again we’re presenting our popular Mug of the Month competition: a fifty-word text in any genre including two keywords, this time JUMP and NET. Nine members have accepted the challenge, and we can expect the usual difficult decision in the voting to select the proud new holder of this month’s…

After our Easter break last week, we’re starting with a fine mix of genres. Mary Rose Tobins’s short story with its wonderfully ambiguous title promises intriguing listening. Frank Fahy has produced a revision of his short story ‘A Father’s Love’ – it would be interesting to see what changes he has made and their impact…

This week sees a surge in Short Stories – some old and some new – from Mary Rose, James, Elizabeth, and Frank. We have several new poems as well featuring Kathleen, Elizabeth, Ciara, Thomas, and Emily. The old Leaving Cert Question ‘COMPARE AND CONTRAST’ will be resurrected to discuss a set of poems. First, we…

Once again it’s time for our popular MOTM competition. Eight contestants are vying for the honour of being called Mug Of The Month, with 50-word entries containing the key words BOX and RING. We look forward to a close vote – good luck to everyone! Our programme continues with two short stories and six further…

Will AI in the form of the new computer software CHATGPT4 make artists – painters, composers or, in our case, writers – redundant? How can we stand up to this new-world form of plagiarism? This worrying topic will be the basis of our discussion on Thursday. Four poems and two short stories by old-established (or…